The Camerimage festival is unique in focusing on the art of cinematography and that plays out in the make up of this year's jury. Alongside Joffe, there are four camermen: Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), Manuel Alberto Claro (Melancholia). Oliver Stapleton (The Cider House Rules) and Arthur Reinhart (Tristan + Isolde), Oscar-winning sound engineer David MacMillan (Apollo 13) and Oscar-nominated production designer David Gropman (Life of Pi). Acclaimed Polish photographer Ryszard Horowitz completes the nine-person competition jury.

Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel (The Right Stuff) will head up the jury for the festival's Polish Films competition sidebar, while Maryse Alberti, cameraman on Terry Zwigoff's Crumb and Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, will be jury president judging documentary entries.